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Liu is the first American woman to win an individual figure skating gold medal since Sarah Hughes in 2002.
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An elections omnibus that would allow nonpartisan judicial candidates to talk about their party affiliation, add new federal citizenship verification processes and a whole lot more has passed a committee vote.
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Murray State University associate professor of Spanish Robert “Moses” Fritz will present his thoughts on how AI can best help further students’ education in a lecture on Friday titled “Putting the Work Back into Homework: Principles of AI-Based Assignment Design.”
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Groups set an all-time record for lobbying spending in the first month of a Kentucky General Assembly session, with the statewide business advocacy group easily leading all spenders.
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After more than a decade of expansion, the latest report from the Kentucky Distillers’ Association says decreases in demand for bourbon and other spirits brought on by trade policies and shifting consumer tastes could slow growth in one of the Bluegrass State’s signature industries.
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Despite voters rarely using these forms of identification in Kentucky elections, the state Senate advanced a bill to prohibit social security and food stamp cards from counting as a valid secondary ID.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis joined Kentucky Republican lawmakers to push for a convention to add a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.
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A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name. Opponents say the legislation would disenfranchise millions of voters.
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Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter sports.
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A proposed rule could put nearly 80,000 people at risk of eviction, many of them U.S. citizen children. Undocumented immigrants don't get rental aid but can currently live with family members who do.
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A new Kenyan intelligence report said the Kenyans were recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine after being misled with false promises of jobs in Russia before being sent to the front lines.
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The move is another Trump administration effort to limit legal pathways to migration or resettlement, after already curbing the number of admitted refugees and re-reviewing those admitted under the Biden administration.